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Incandescent Bulb Phase Out? Most Americans in the Dark
The First Annual SYLVANIA Socket Survey, commissioned by lighting technology company, OSRAM SYLVANIA, a division of Siemens AG, highlights (pun intended) some bad, and mostly good information. While many Americans know many of the advantages of compact flourescent bulbs, 78% are unaware that standard incandescent bulbs will be phased out beginning in the year 2012.
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Iria
Search for ivory-billed woodpecker to begin anew
Last year, Allan Mueller thinks he saw the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The wildlife biologist wants to make sure of it this winter.
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Nokia Announces the N97 "Mobile Computer"
On Tuesday at Nokia World '08 in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia announced its latest iPhone killer. It didn't really claim it to be that, but it did claim that its newest mobile device, called a mobile computer rather than a mobile phone, would "transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other."
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Microsoft to Expand Vista SP2 Testing
In late October Microsoft released the first beta of Windows Vista SP2 to a small group of Technology Adoption Program customers. In a blog post, Microsoft said they are going to open up the beta to more testers, starting this week.
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Iria
Apple Announces Top iTunes Downloads, 2008
It's that time of the year when everyone announces their "Top" list. Top this, top that. Feeling left out, Apple has launched a special section of iTunes that lists the top iTunes downloads of 2008. This includes not only movies, TV shows and music, but also App Store purchases for the iPod Touch and iPhone.
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Mon Dec 01, 2008
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Iria
Netflix's Roku Player Facing Video Quality Problems
Users of the Roku video streaming player have seen a noticeable degradation of video quality, as evidenced by forum posts on the Roku site. Roku's aware of the problem, but according to the company, it's made no changes, and it's asking for end user help.
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Iria
Invulnerable No More: Apple Recommends Antivirus Software
It's long been asserted that Apple computers are invulnerable to viruses. This has not been because the OS is flawless, but rather because hackers focused on the more popular OS: Windows, as well as the fact that most hackers had Windows machines. But no longer.
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Space shuttle detours to land at Edwards
Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station.
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Iria
The Simpsons Skewer Mapple, er, Apple
In their typical fashion, The Simpsons 11/30 episode, "Mypods and Boomsticks," lay waste to the Cult of Apple. When Lisa finds that their local mall now has a Mapple store, the family just has to visit it.
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Sun Nov 30, 2008
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Iria
Large Hadron Collider to Get More Downtime Than Expected
If you're worried about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) bringing the world to an end, you can breathe easy for a few more months. The restart of the world's largest particle accelerator, which was estimated for the spring of 2009, has now been pushed back until late summer.
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Iria
iPhone Reaches 10,000 Official Apps (More or Less)
The App Store is doing well, there's no doubt of that. And according to reports, the list of official, approved apps in the App Store has surpassed 10,000. This, of course, doesn't include apps for jailbroken phones.
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Sat Nov 29, 2008
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Iria
Indian Authorities Surprised by Mumbai Terrorist Tech
It's not new; I've written about the use of technology by insurgents and terrorists before, quite some time ago, in fact. This week, as spectators around the world either watched TV news, tracked Twitter feeds, read blogs and sites in horror as the Mumbai terrorist attacks unfolded, the terrorists themselves were tech'ed up in order to track the police response themselves.
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Iria
Windows Vista SP2 RTM in April: Report
Windows Vista SP2 will ship in April of 2009, with a release candidate issued in February, according to a Malaysian web site that successfully predicted the release dates for both Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3, earlier this year.
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gumbythecat.blogspot.com
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Matt from Akron
Moon/Venus/Jupiter Conjunction Monday Night
Those of you who are lucky enough to have clear skies Monday evening are in for a treat. Look to the southwest after sunset on Monday, December 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter.
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Fri Nov 28, 2008
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Iria
Astronaut Invents Zero-G Coffee Cup
Ever try to drink coffee through a straw. For a coffee lover, it ruins the experience. A coffee-loving astronaut has devised a zero-G cup, that he can use to drink his java sans straw.
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Iria
Intel: Netbooks "Fine for an Hour"
Despite creating a line of CPUs seemingly targeted precisely for the netbook market, the Atom, Intel seems as though it just might be having second thoughts.
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Thu Nov 27, 2008
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Iria
Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic Now Available
Nokia's highly anticipated 5800 XpressMusic, which was codename the "Tube," is now available, according to a Thanksgiving Nokia press release.
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www.msnbc.msn.com
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Iria
First known turtle swam on the half shell
A half-shell turtle species that swam in China's coastal waters 220 million years ago is the oldest turtle known to date, a new analysis of fossils reveals.
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Top Ex Ed
Astronauts share freeze-dried Thanksgiving feast
Astronauts raised plastic cups of iced tea and toasted the Thanksgiving holiday from the international space station Thursday.
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Meat
Wed Nov 26, 2008
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
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Matt from Akron
Simulating Seismic Wave Propagation Across the Earth
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego have successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations of the earth's inner structure, paving the way for seismologists to model seismic wave propagations at frequencies of just over one second – the same frequencies that occur in nature.
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